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Olivia Neutron-Bomb

Greetings Terrans, I hope you’re all well, and that life is being kind. I have a quick post to share with you today – ‘Olivia Neutron Bomb’ is the BOYL 2017 event mini, and is a beautiful sculpt by John Pickford, organised & designed by Old Hammer stalwart Axiom. Most intriguingly, she is closely based on this classic bit of Rogue Trader art:

I actually had Olivia based and primed as part of my Fembruary effort, but I didn’t get around to painting her because she didn’t quite fit the post-apocalypse gang that I had going on. However, she is such a brilliantly strong female mini, so I knew that I wanted to include her somewhere… Then I remembered these guys from 2016, and I figured that Olivia would be the perfect unit leader for this bunch of reprobates. I broke out my Kantor Blue and started laying down some colour, keeping to the same palette that I used on the older minis but opting to follow the RT artwork rather than freestyling it quite as much as I did on the original guys. Here she is, in all her glory:

The trousers were a real pain – I wanted to keep close to the artwork, but also use the same palette as for the rest of the squad. I think I got there in the end, but her snazzy pants took a few iterations. Otherwise she was a joyful thing to paint – she’s a really lovely mini with such a great story. Here she is leading her team of ultimate bad-asses through the streets of some backwater shithole planet:

So that’s it for now folks, I hope you’ve enjoyed my take on Olivia! I’ll be going dark for a couple of weeks, (a lot of work & life stuff coming up), but I’ll catch you all soon enough. Have a good one 🙂

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34 thoughts on “Olivia Neutron-Bomb”

I wonder if the artist was originally intended the pants to leopard print? Hard to say, but another great mini and those pants must have been a pain to paint! Turned out really nice and I like the small additions to the base as well.

Thanks mate – they were 🙂 I actually started out with much smaller blue spots, (as per the art), but the trousers ended up looking more grey than blue so I took some artistic license & went with bigger blobs. Glad you like her mate!

Looks good mate – and well done on the animal print trousers – that cannot have been easy. You’ve got it to work on an essentially “military” model without it ending up looking like camo which must have been as much of a challenge as the pattern itself.

Cheers dude, glad you like her. Yeah, the trousers were the only fiddly bit really, but that was self-inflicted through trying to match the squad and the art at the same time… I’m glad that she was worth the effort 😉

She’s really great Alex – a very striking addition to the unit, and a perfect hard-as-nails mercenary squad leader. I’ve really enjoyed seeing the different painted versions of Olivia appear since BOYL – every one has been different, even when panting on the helmet markings and giraffe-print leggings!

I tried to get my hands on one but no dice sadly. Fair enough though as I didn’t attend BOYL and it would hardly be an exclusive miniature if any old riff raff could just lay their grubby mitts on one.